First fire of the season

awesome!! Enjoy the warm feeling from your stove...Theres nothing like it.

Sounds like a perfect night for a toasty fire.. Enjoy!

Had a fire last night and one tonight. My stove seems to want to run about 600-650 to be able to heat this room, which is a den of 12x20ft and is open to the dining room and kitchen and that leads to open living room so maybe I am expecting too much of this Resolute lll but then 600 does not seem too much really for this stove. I love the stove. I do have a question which I will ask in separate post. I have never nor have the prior owners of the stove ever have cleaned it like the baffles etc. anyone know how I can tell if that is necessary?

Ahh, mid 40's at night and partly sunny days here. Just right for a fire should get it up to 75 or 80 in here for at least 3-4 hrs.

Adkjake, when we went through Lake Placid last month all it did was rain and I surely don't doubt snow now. I also recall 20 some odd years ago when we were trying to drive through NY state on I-84 and we got stopped because of a snowstorm and that was early October. We sat on the Interstate for a long, long time before we finally decided to try crossing to the other side and going back east. We made it and spent the night. Then next day we made it okay but there was a lot of snow fell then and, of course, lots of tree limbs down and people with no electric. Nasty it was.

[quote author="sandie" date="1287209049"]Had a fire last night and one tonight. My stove seems to want to run about 600-650 to be able to heat this room, which is a den of 12x20ft and is open to the dining room and kitchen and that leads to open living room so maybe I am expecting too much of this Resolute lll but then 600 does not seem too much really for this stove.

The temps your getting from that stove is exactly where it wants to be. My question to you would be this, in the den where the stove is located, does the heat move into other parts of the house easily enough to not over heat the den? I would think 240 sq ft and a stove at 600 deg would be more than enough.

Den does NOT get overly hot and if I were to burn for all day then it would move to the rest of the house but most times we burn in evening and it burns out by morning when we go to work etc. I think this year may retire so may do all day burns and we will see how that goes. It is the VC Resolute lll of vintage 1982 I think but not sure since not original owner, my second family had it and got a new one and bigger so gave this one to me.